WEBVTT - Border Czar Tom Homan - Exclusive One on One 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:01.560 Welcome. 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:05.200 It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson with you, Senator. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:06.960 One of the best things about getting to do this 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:12.000 show is having on brilliant minds from within the administration 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:14.720 who get to talk directly the American people. And today 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.880 we get to have another very special guest, a. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:18.759 Good friend of yours. 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.440 The Borders Are is joining us and I'll let you 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:22.160 take it from there. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.279 Well, Tom Homan is serving as President Trump's Borders Are. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.480 He is the former acting director of the US Immigration 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:33.360 and Customs Enforcement and he has been borders Are since 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:38.559 Trump resumed office as president. His formal title, which I like, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.000 is what White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.640 Removal Operations. And to be clear, his job is to 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:51.360 secure the border, keep US safe, and remove dangerous illegal aliens. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.680 He's doing a hell of a job. Tom, Welcome to Verdict. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:55.560 Thanks for having me. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.920 So let's start with just how are we doing? 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.440 And we're four months in, almost five months into the 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:07.479 Trump presidency. How are we doing? Tell us what has 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.240 happened since President Trump became president again? 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:10.880 On the border? 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.800 Well, President Trump today, where I'm talking to today san 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.960 Or the Cruz. We have the most secure border in 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.560 the history of this nation. Today, the most secure board ever. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.120 I mean we even beat Trump forty five. Well, we 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.040 hand the Biden administration's most secure boarder ever ahead of 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.040 that time. But the Dad is even better now. And 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:32.080 let me give you a few numbers, just a few numbers. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:36.319 Under Biden administration, we were dealing with ten eleven thousand, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.880 even a few times fifteen thousand aliens to day yesterday 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.560 it was two hundred and eleven. We went from thirteen 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:47.720 fourteen thousand to two hundred and eleven. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.000 And that's across the entire southwest border. 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.080 Yes, gotaways under Biden an average gotaway day and under 0:01:55.080 --> 0:02:00.559 Biden was eighteen hundred plus eighteen hundred plus got aways 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.240 yesterday thirty nine. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:03.320 Wow. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.760 And then the most impressive number the first one hundred 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.280 days on President Trump compared to the first the same 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.760 time period last year under Biden, Biden released over one 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.880 hundred and eighty four thousand illegal animates in this country. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:23.120 The Trump administration one there was nine releases. But for 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:25.519 more material witnesses. As you know, we want them to 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.040 come here to testifying the Carpol troal so form we 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.040 want to command four came across the border in such 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.320 bad shape that we had to call an ambulance and 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.040 take care of the medical needs. We had allowment insided 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:41.800 medical treatment, but we had one one discretionary release compared 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.160 to one hundred and eighty four thousand released under the 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.080 same time period. Are in biden most secure border history 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.079 of nation. Interior enforcement offerings ices arrested three times more 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.760 criminals than Biden did during the same time period. We 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:57.240 got more to rest, We got many more to rest, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.239 but they're already hitting the ball out of park. Don't 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.000 keep doing it when you do more of it. And 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.560 we're hoping for a budget real soon here so we 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.680 can step up efforts there. But it's it's game changing. 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.000 President Trump's been a game changer, and the men and women, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.720 vice and men, women, barb stood up taking on the 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.839 task and cousindent. Trump did in seven weeks, but Joe 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.760 Biden couldn't or wouldn't do in four years. 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.840 My favorite line from from President Trump's most recent State 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.880 of the Union address it is when he said, you know, 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.440 Joe Biden stood here a year ago and said that 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:30.280 he couldn't secure the border without new legislation passing Congress 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.200 and then Trump said, it turns out we didn't need 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.960 new legislation, We just needed a new president and and. 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:38.440 And that's powerfully true. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.520 So let me ask just just a simple question for 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.280 those Look, you're you're an immigration expert, but for someone 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.360 at home, how did the numbers drop so precipitously? What 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.080 specifically are y'all doing differently than than what Joe Biden, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:53.960 Kamala Harris did. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.920 The biggest thing we've done is a president's executive orders 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.320 that are We're a game changer, remain EXCO a game changer. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.800 I have the third State Country Agreements a game changer, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.480 and finally ending catcher release. People know you come to 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.280 a border, now you're not being released, and we're just 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.640 followed the law because, as you know, under federal statue, 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.440 an alien arrives at our border without proper documentation to 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.719 enter the language is you shall be detained. Now maybe 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.760 not thinking about it, not problem shall And that's exactly 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.760 where we're doing. Those street things, by themselves have been 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.160 a major game changer, and all three of them were 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:33.360 EXCO lords by. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.360 President Trump's I want to talk to you real quick 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.640 about the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews most of us, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.320 when we go to bed at night, we don't have 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.080 to worry about there being an explosion that awakes us 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.600 in the middle of the evening. We climb into our beds, 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.080 we turn off the lights, and we sleep in relative safety. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.719 But the people of Israel are facing NonStop threats on 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.480 seven different fronts. 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Now, let's be clear, every place they 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:21.360 build a border barrier, illegal migrations went down, illegal drug 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.080 flow went down, But most important walls save lives. Women 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.520 and children can't get over that wall, the most vulnerable, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.440 so they go to a place so there's not a 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.320 wall on what's waiting on them the men and women 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.920 of the Borderatrol first of all. So the ball saves lives. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.040 So we need to finish the border barrier. We need 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.600 money to finish the technology within the existing border wall, 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.120 because not only did President by And stop the construction 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.880 of the wall, he stopped adding the technology in that 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.000 smart wall, technology that lets us know how someone climbs 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.880 that wall, touch this wall, dig under that wall. Technology 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.400 where borbitual agents in the middle of nowhere can get 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.280 on the radio and use the wall as a repeater 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.520 to talk to other agents for help. There are some 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.000 places on the southern border where they lose all community. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.400 So all that technology needs to be done. More technology yet, 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.760 portive entries to make sure no Ventana's coming through. And 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.880 as far as the entire enforcement, we need beds. Right now. 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.800 We got about fifty two thousand people in detention. We're 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.440 funder that thirty four thousand ICE is already in the hole. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.880 We need about one hundred thousand beds because everybody we 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.240 arrest needs a bet. We just don't rest abody in 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:23.720 New York City and put them on a plane leave. 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.440 We got detained for several days or several weeks, to 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.680 get travel doctrines, get flight flight arrangements, flight finances. So 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.200 we need bets. So we need you know, so this budget, 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.720 that depending budget right now, the Big beautiful Bill will 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.680 give us money for those beds. They're going to give 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.080 us thousands of more borbitiacens, thousands more ICE agents. It's 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.960 going to give ICE a budget to bring in more 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.920 contracts up. What I mean by that badgers and guns 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.760 shouldn't be sitting at a desk doing reports of processing. 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.480 They shouldn't be sitting at a desk doing travel documents 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.400 and all the all the administrative duties that occur within ice. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.040 You can have a contract to sitting there doing that work. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.280 Give that badging gun, get them out on the street 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.240 to arrest the public safety thrusts and national security threats. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.200 So we needed the money to Like I said, we're 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.880 doing more than Biden did, but Biden wasn't doing anything. 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.080 We need to do ten times more than buying it too, 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.160 not three times more. And I'll leave you with this. 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.440 We got seven hundred thousand illegal aliens in this country 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.360 with a criminal conviction walking the streets this country. We 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.239 got to get them. We got to get it quickly. 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.120 We got one point four man illegal aliens who do 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.679 have due process, a great taxpayer expense. We're ordered removed 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.520 by a federal judge and didn't leave and they become fusitives. 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.120 We got a lot of work to do, and we 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.040 need money to do more. We're doing good, but more 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.480 money we have, the more we can do well. 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.760 And Ben I'll say this that Congress, we will get 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.720 this Reconciliation bill passed. It's gonna take time, it's gonna 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.920 be bumpy, but we'll get it done. And when we 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.960 get it done, we're gonna have funding to build the wall. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.160 We're gonna have funding for technology on the wall. We're 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.840 gonna have funding for more border patrol agents. We're gonna 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.880 have funding for more ice agents. We're gonna have funding 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.000 for more detention beds. We're gonna have funding for more 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.319 fixed wing and rhetory way aircraft. We're going to have 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.840 funding for more drones and more infrared and technology. We 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:06.960 are stepping in now. It's going to take a little 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.520 bit of time to get the bill across the finish line, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.520 but I'm confident we'll do it. And I will say 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.680 it really underscores something we've said on Verdict many times, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.840 which is the most important factor in securing the border. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.040 And this is what Tom said just a minute ago. 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.119 It is a policy decision, and it is a decision 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.760 what happens when you apprehend an illegal immigrant. And if 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.959 the answer is you put them on a plane and 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.840 you fly them back home. They all have cell phones. 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:36.880 They pick up their phones and they call home and 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.520 they say don't come. They're not letting you stay. And 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:42.400 the flip side is true if when you apprehend them, 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:44.000 you let them go. You say what city do you 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.640 want to go to? And you put them on a plane, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.200 you put them on a bus, and you let them 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.920 go in every city in America, which is what Joe 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.319 Biden was doing. Again, they all have phones. They pick 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.560 up the phone, they call their friends and family, and 0:09:54.640 --> 0:10:00.440 the numbers skyrocket. And so when President Trump left office 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:03.880 the first time he had produced the lowest rate of 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.280 illegal immigration in forty five years. That's what Joe Biden inherited. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.920 It immediately skyrocketed to the worst rate of illegal immigration 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.079 in history. Joe Biden allowed twelve million of the illegal 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.360 immigrants to come into this country. And regular listeners of 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.280 Verdict will recall I predicted, I said, we will see 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.199 the numbers plummet. And it won't take a year, it 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.160 won't even take six months. It will happen immediately, because 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.679 on day one, catch and release is going to end, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.640 and we're going to see the numbers plummet. Now all 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.600 that being said, Tom, let me ask you honestly, I 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:41.560 will admit I predicted loudly that the numbers would plummet. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.120 I'll confess. I didn't think they'd drop over ninety nine percent. 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:50.240 Are you I'm surprised at just how massive the success is. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.760 Are you a little bit surprised or. 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.439 No, I'm not surprised for all the success. I'm surprised 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.319 how fast that happened. When President Trump, when he called me, 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.080 asked me to be the borders our course, I didn't. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.520 Has Dak came back and the first meeting who he had, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.079 he asked me, how long will it take you down 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.640 the secure the border? I says, sir, I need I 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.199 need at least one hundred and twenty days. He says, well, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.640 I get a ninety. I said, sir, I'll respect one 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.640 hundred and twenty days, even pushing that we did this 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.320 in seven weeks. Seven weeks numbers already down. Yep, ninety. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:22.480 And you're exactly right. Everything you said is right. But 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.600 I want to add one thing. When Joe Biden opened 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.840 that border up, he's the first president in the history 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.920 of this nation who came into office and unsecured a 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.760 border on purpose. This wasn't mismanagement, this wasn't incompetence. He 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.720 ran on open borders, and that's exactly what he did. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.360 You know. So when you tell the whole world enter 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.240 the country legally, don't worry about it. We're going to 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.679 release you anyways. And when you got a secondary of 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.600 ma orcust on ice. You can't arrest somebody for being 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.360 here illegally unless they got a serious criminal conviction. The 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.360 whole world's going to come. You can cross the border illegally. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.200 You get released in twenty four hours. We won't give 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.640 you a free plane ticket to the city of your choice. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.480 We're going to put you in a free hotel room. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.600 We're going to give you three meals a day. We're 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:03.720 going to give you free medical attention. And guess what, 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.560 hanging out for one hundred and twenty days, We're gonna 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.640 give you a work assization. The very reason they came 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.679 Hery not because of asylum, because they wanted a job. So 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.640 Biden did what he did, I'm purposed, and President Trump 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.360 came back in seven weeks again seven weeks did what 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.360 Joe Biden couldn't do or wouldn't do. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:24.320 Repeat the numbers you said about how many illegals are 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.560 in the US right now who have criminal convictions, and 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.840 to be clear, these are convictions for crimes other than 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.360 crossing illegally into the country. Every illegal has committed that crime, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.960 But how many have convictions for murder, for rape, for 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.080 other crimes other than crossing the border illegally. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.480 Just under seven hundred thousand. 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.559 I mean, that is a stunning number. And what you're saying, 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.880 and I agree with you, is is that Joe Biden 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.480 deliberately chose We're going to leave murderers here, We're going 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.360 to leave rapists in America, We're going to leave child 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.160 molesters in America. We're not going to send ice to 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.800 arrest them, We're not going to pick them up, we're 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:05.400 not going to deport them. That they put partisan politics 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.560 above protecting American families, about protecting our kids. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.920 That's why I woke up four years pissed off every morning. 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.240 President Trump when he called me, asked me to come back, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.079 and he said to me, we've been E've been bitching 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:19.600 about it for four years. Want to come back and 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.160 fix it. And I did because I knew every morning 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.120 I wake up, and Senator you know this just as 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.240 well as I do. I knew every morning when I 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.240 woke up, how many children died acrossing the borders last night, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.200 how many women got sexually assaulted. How many people on 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.839 Terrace Roster's got across the border. How many women and 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.520 children were sex traffick in this country? How many billions 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.360 of dollars in the cartels make how many Americans died 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.800 in the last twenty four hours from Fetannah coming across 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.319 the open border for four years, I was pissed off. 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.240 President Trump came back, like I said, in seven weeks. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.760 We had a border down ninety percent in seven weeks. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.640 So you know, just like you said, it was a 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.200 matter of President the matter enforce the law. You know, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.760 I'll tell you it's center cruise. And you know, every 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.000 time I seen the meeting, every time I see you 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.120 in the meeting, I call you out. I call you 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:04.640 out because you've been a tip of the speer on 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.680 this thing. I appreciate your working us. You're from Texas, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.920 you know, And God bless Governor Abbit. Governor Abbitt did 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.080 he was more of a Secretary of Homeland Security moral 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:15.240 it's ever been wherever it's thought of being, so, God 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.000 blessed date of Texas. They took the first rail on 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.840 this And again, I can't thank you enough. Every time 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.880 I see I call you out. Thank you for being 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.720 the tip of the spear. I see you everywhere wanting 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.640 the secure border, and you're fighting hard for me, and 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.360 you're fighting hard for the men and women the border 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.160 toe You're fighting hard for the men and women of Ice. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:33.720 I love each and every one of those men and 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.120 put their live on line for this country every day, 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.800 men and women, and I appreciate your fight for them. 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.120 You've had their six and day one, and I love 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:42.280 you for it. I appreciate it. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.360 Well, Tom, let me thank you for that. I appreciate that, 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.560 and I appreciate your passion and commitment. You were You're 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.480 showing up, and you said something that I think is 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.760 really important for our listeners to understand. You and President 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.560 Trump right now are quite literally saving lives. You are 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.560 saving lives. There are Americans, and there are significant number 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:08.200 of Americans who are alive today because a violent criminal 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.600 did not cross the border, was not released, and didn't 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.720 murder them. There are women who have not been raped 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.520 because you've stopped the Biden practice of releasing rapists. There 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:22.200 are children and the number of children who haven't been 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:27.240 physically and sexually assaulted by human traffickers. It is already 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.120 I think well into the thousands. And I want you 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.880 to think about that. Thousands of little girls, thousands of 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:39.359 little boys have not been violently, repeatedly raped by human traffickers. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.840 Why because President Trump came in and because you've been 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.760 the borders are implementing it and secured the border, and 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.680 those kids are no longer being trafficked. That is a 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:53.160 profound legacy in just four or five months. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:57.120 And let me go one step further. Of Trump asked 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.240 me to do three things. Security border, run the large 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.960 largest deep rotation offers I've ever seen, and find these 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.600 children and buy an administration over half a million children 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.680 were smuggling in this country, separated from their family, smuggling 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.480 this country and put in the hands of sponsors, many 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:16.040 unvetter sponsors. The last administration lost track of three hundred 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.880 thousand of them. Doesn't Trumps committed to finding as many 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.720 as you can. We've already found over seventy five hundred 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.120 of them. Wow. Some of thee were fir free, safe 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.200 with family, some were perfectly safe, and some weren't. Example 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.120 just there for yes, say a fourteen year old little 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.880 girl already to sex traffic, was pregnant living with two 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.280 men who are trafficking there where were going to prison 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.760 and we're helping that little girl. So we're going to 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.800 rescue every one of these little girls and make sure 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:42.480 that they're safe because so many of them are going 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.760 to be okay with family members. They just didn't respond 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.800 to problems or so forth. But many, I guarantee, I've 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.840 been doing this for over forty years. Many of them 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.360 are in sex trafficking, many of them are in forced labor, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.680 living a life of hell every day. We're committed to 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.080 find every one of these little children and making sure 0:16:58.120 --> 0:16:58.600 they're safe. 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.160 You mentioned finding them all. Let's talk about sanctuary cities 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.040 for a second. It's very clear Democrats are not backing 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:10.280 off of that. How dangerous is the policy and and 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.760 and who is being harbored in these cities that are 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.280 refusing to work with you guys? Will there be accountability? 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:21.600 Are they harboring MS thirteen gang members and domestic terrorists, 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.919 foreign terrorists? Uh, those that are putting the fetnol out 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.560 in society. How dangerous are these cities? 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.359 Well, they're the dangerous, the dangerous for everybody because in 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.880 the sanctuary city means you don't have access to the jail. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.879 Arrust A bad guy public safety threat in the safety 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.560 and security of the jail, where the alien safe, the 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.479 officers safe, on the public safe. When sanctuary cities knowingly 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.280 released a public safety a threat back in the street, 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.840 it certainly puts the community at risk. He even puts 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.080 the alien at risk because anything can happen during the 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.560 street arrest and great it puts the officers that great 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.879 risk because now we've got to arrest a criminal alien 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.280 public safety threat on his turf. We as access to 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.440 who knows what weapons. It's very dangerous and yest will 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.240 host sanctuary cities accountable. Its pam binding has already fought 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:08.480 lawsuits against several Uh, we're we're we're working with DJ 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.080 now again. We want we want where's that right, where's 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.440 that where's that line? Where when do you cross that line? 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.120 You can sit there and watch ICE do your job. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.240 Because here's what irritates me the most. I don't care 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.160 what party you're in. If you're an elected mayor, elect, 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:28.439 a city council person, or elected governor, your number one 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.879 responsibility it's the safety and security of your neighborhoods, your communities. 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:36.400 ICE has been cleared from the beginning with President Trump 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.720 we're going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats. 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:44.000 Why will you not help us make your community safer. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.639 There's no downside on that. And the sanctuary cities want 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.920 to argue what we're a sanctuary city because we want 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.280 victims and witnesses of crime, if they're illegally United States 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:56.440 to feel comfortable coming to the law enforcement without fear 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.600 of working with ICE. That is a bunch of crap victims, 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.440 and this is a crime. Don't want the bad guy 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.280 in the neighborhood either. And as far as the illegal 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.560 alien community, I'll say this, despite being here illegally, many 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.840 of them are god fearing family people. They don't want 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.240 a pretor in the neighborhood either. They don't want someone 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.320 to commit to DUI ten times driving to their neighborhood either. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.840 So you know, if you go to the immigrant community 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.240 and ask the one simple question, would you rather have 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.720 ICE operating in the jail or in your community, what 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.680 do you think they're gonna say. They're gonna say to jail. 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.720 So sanctuousities will be held accountable. Matter of fact, we're 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.040 reissuing the ICE detainer. We just changed the new ICE 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.440 detainer We're letting them black and white, let them know 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.560 this person is a designated terrorist, this person is a 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.239 designated return felon. We're gonna let them know exactly who 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:46.280 there detaining based on biographic and biometric information and see 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.280 what they do. Are they gonna violate Relates and Riley Act? 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.200 Then we'll go out to prosecution. Now they're going to 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.159